9/24/99

Contacts:
Harold Crawford, Agricultural Education and Studies, (515) 294-7725
Ed Adcock, Agriculture Information, (515) 294-2314

ISU AND TRIBAL COLLEGES RECEIVE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT GRANT

AMES -- Iowa State University's College of Agriculture and four Tribal colleges will use a U. S. Department of Agriculture Higher Education Challenge Grant to develop environmental and natural resource courses.

The College of Agriculture will work with Crownpoint Institute of Technology in Crownpoint, N.M., Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kan., Oglala Lakota Community College in Kyle, S.D. and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College in Hayward, Wis. in the curriculum development project. Harold Crawford, professor of agricultural education and studies, and Thomas Ingebritsen, associate professor of zoology and genetics, will be the co-principal investigators for the two-year project, which is being funded with a $221,000 Challenge Grant.

ISU and the four Tribal Colleges will form partnership teams to conduct training workshops, serve as mentors in course development, provide internship programs for undergraduates and disseminate the courses through on-line delivery to the 30 Tribal Colleges across the United States. One course will be developed by each of the four partner Tribal Colleges to strengthen their natural resources and/or environmental studies programs. Course development will emphasize curriculum design, materials development, cultural influences, faculty preparation, instructional delivery systems and student experiential learning in natural resources and/or environmental studies.

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